Jasia Reichardt correspondence, 1956-1987, consists mainly of correspondence between artists, writers, and Reichardt from
1965 to 1975 when she was Assistant Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Director of the Whitechapel
Gallery.

Background

Polish-born Jasia Reichardt has lived most of her life in England, where in the 1950s she was associated with the Gaberbocchus
Common Room, a meeting place for artists and scientists. She has worked as an art writer, curator, and author of interdisciplinary
studies about the relationship between literature and art or science and art. She was Assistant Director of the Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London, from 1963 to 1971, where she curated two exhibitions of lasting impact:
Between Poetry and Painting (1965) and
Cybernetic Serendipity (1968). In 1971 and 1972, she worked for The Toymakers Co-operative soliciting artists to create original toys, a project
funded by an American entrepreneur seeking new, more ingenious products. From 1974 to 1976 she was Director of the Whitechapel
Gallery, after which she taught at various colleges, wrote for international art magazines, and independently curated exhibitions
generally on the relationship between cybernetics and art. She has authored and edited several books, including
Robots: Fact, Fiction and Prediction (1978), worked on a project about the visualization of mathematics, and curated the exhibition
Electronically Yours (1998) for the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.